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Ever since the likes of Michel Gondry went from directing music videos to directing feature films, we've seen an increasing number of innovative music videos. 

My favorite site to keep up on the best new releases is videos.antville.org. Directors often embed their own videos to the site to receive feedback from the often-vocal commenters. 

Today NME.com ran a story about Spotify, a new and legal online music service that, they say, "offers users unlimited music for free." Sounds too good to be true, right? Apparently not. Everyone I know who's tried it says it's every bit as wonderful as you can imagine.

Spotify is made to look like iTunes, but you can stream full length songs for free rather than pay to download them. 

THESE QUESTIONS GO TO ELEVEN is a new ZIO blog series. Each week the same 11 questions are answered by a different musician via email. Check out Zoom In Music every Wednesday for a new installment or subscribe here for the RSS feed.

We here at Zoom In Online realize that you probably spend so much time perusing our site that you may occasionally look up from your web browsing and notice that multiple days have passed.  We appreciate that.  While we can't make up for your lost days of work or missing your spouse's/friend's/relative's/child's birthday, we can update you on what you're missing in the outside world - what DVDs are being released, for instance.  Check Zoom In Online every Tuesday to keep tabs on all the DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week.

We here at Zoom In Online realize that you probably spend so much time perusing our site that you may occasionally look up from your web browsing and notice that multiple days have passed. We appreciate that. And while we can't make up for your lost days of work or missing your spouse's/friend's/relative's/child's birthday, we can update you on what you're missing in the outside world - what DVDs are being released, for instance. Check Zoom In Online every Tuesday to keep tabs on all the DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week.

Here in the good ol' U.S. of A., we're going through a bit of recession, though you wouldn't know it if you were judging by the money people are dropping on The Dark Knight. Not only has the film become the highest grossing motion picture of the year (and second highest grosser in history), but after only one week of release it has ALREADY become the top-selling DVD of 2008.

We here at Zoom In Online realize that you probably spend so much time perusing our site that you may occassionally look up from your web browsing and notice that multiple days have passed.  We appreciate that.  And while we can't make up for your lost days of work or missing your spouse's/friend's/relative's/child's birthday, we can update you on what you're missing in the outside world - what DVDs are being released, for instance.  Check Zoom In Online every Tuesday to keep tabs on all the DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week.

This week, the infamous I Can Has Cheezburger? has jumped on the iPhone bandwagon, releasing their free Cheezeburgers To Go application. The app lets you navigate to each of the eight lolcat sites, as well as save your favorite photos as wallpaper.

As a child, I was promised many things about the future. Flying cars, communities on the moon, and talking robot servants were all flights on fancy that my young adult eyes have yet to see come to fruition. For those of you more grounded in reality who may have dreamt that the future will hold free movies and TV shows played in their entirety online, then MGM and YouTube are making your dreams come true. Variety reports that "[the] venerable studio, eager to monetize its library however possible, will allow YouTube to stream certain MGM pics and TV skeins in their entirety in exchange for ad coin."